The Qur’an according to Itself – By Gabriel Reynolds
Gabriel Reynolds on Anne-Sylvie Boisliveau’s Le Coran par lui-même Early Muslims took to naming their scripture the Qurʾan because of the passages therein
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Islamic History
Traveling to Acquire Knowledge – By Daniel Majchrowicz
Daniel Majchrowicz on Houari Touati’s Islam and Travel in the Middle Ages Travel was always desirable to them And they visited every continent
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Islam’s Compatibility with Science – By Robert Morrison
Robert Morrison on David A. King’s Islamic Astronomy and Geography Islam’s compatibility with science remains a prominent topic in public discourse. In a
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In Mecca’s Backyard – By Alexandre M. Roberts
Alexandre M. Roberts on Timothy Power’s The Red Sea from Byzantium to the Caliphate: AD 500–1000 A long coastal plain called the Tihama
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Trajectory and Change in Islamic Law – By Ahmed El Shamsy
Ahmed El Shamsy on Behnam Sadeghi’s The Logic of Law Making in Islam: Women and Prayer in the Legal Tradition The origins of the
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Praying Ants and Prostrating Beasts – By George Archer
George Archer on Sarra Tlili’s Animals in the Qur’an The classical period of Islamic scholarship produced a fruitful and developed body of commentary on the
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Extra Islam salus est? – By Marco Demichelis
Marco Demichelis on Mohammad Hassan Khalil’s Islam and the Fate of Others and Between Heaven and Hell While outsiders often view Islam as an exclusivist
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How We Choose to Write History
David Nirenberg responds to the Forum on Anti-Judaism We know that “books, too, have their fates,” but all too seldom is that fate
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Like a Jew: Anti-Judaism in Early Islam and Medieval Iberia
Jonathan P. Decter on David Nirenberg’s Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition Prior to Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition, David Nirenberg was best known for his impressive study
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The Activist of Andalusia: Ibn Hazm of Cordoba – By Paul L. Heck
Paul L. Heck on Ibn Hazm of Cordoba: The Life and Works of A Controversial Thinker Ibn Hazm of Cordoba, pious scholar and
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